At the risk of stating the obvious, the July 2019 US Politics Thread is horse-sh*t

Pelosi said she’ll ask faith-based/evangelical groups to appeal to president to stop ICE raids. “They put him in office.”

by the way, if you confront evangelicals with this, what they say is "i just want people to follow the law"

look i think she has to operate on the assumption that these people will do the right thing if she appeals passively to a go-between voting bloc that has always completely sided with the opposition.

Morals are very important to Evangelical Christians so I think we should just trust that they'll make the most morally-defensible decision in any given situation. I'm sure if we point out that Donald Trump behaves in an immoral fashion they'll realize that giving him their support was a mistake.

(takes medication to relieve post-lobotomy headache)

had to triple check that this person wasn’t just doing a bit pic.twitter.com/wtlM9hGGWW

— unlicensed professional (@KrangTNelson) July 11, 2019

Nancy hasn't been disrespected this much since she first arrived on Ellis Island.

There was also that time her daughters ordered a pizza wth penne on it and Nancy was all "That is not a pizza!!!"

i would slur her with an italian slur but i forgot what they all even are and i can't find my slur dictionary

I presume anti-Italian prejudice (certainly a real thing midcentury) hadn't vanished by Pelosi's youth -- in the late '30s there was a major magazine profile (LIfe?) of Joe DiMaggio that literally complimented "He doesn't reek of garlic" -- but one of these things is not like the other.

1939 https://books.google.com/books?id=qEkEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=joe%20dimaggio%20life%20magazine%201939&pg=PA69#v=onepage&q=garlic&f=false

Thanks! A little amazed my memory was that accurate.

the Alfred E. Neuman thing was a dig at Buttigieg I think.

holy hell I just realized that "one-thousand twenty-fourth" is why Trump wrote "1000/24th"

I still don’t get that. I assumed he was trying to refer to Warren’s DNA test but doesn’t know how fractions work?

either that or he thinks she's 4167% Native, maybe why he calls her "Pocahontas"??

you could be 110% right on that, it's tough to tell with this guy

Let's keep divining the poop he's smeared all over the walls, I'm sure the secret meaning will reveal itself in time.

trump's cultural references are slightly fresher than john sterling's, but a lot less coherent

it is high . . . it is far . . . it is caught fake news

1/1024 = 1/(2^10), which I guess in allele division means ten generations ago or so.

Per CNN, Trump expected to back away from census citizenship question, direct Commerce to seek data through other sources: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/politics/trump-census-executive-action/index.html

what would have prevented everyone from just fucking lying on the census? is it a 'under pentalty of perjury' sort of thing?

also re: italians as POC: my wife has a friend who is just a few years older than us (in her 50's) and she acts all the time ike this is still a thing. She's from NY.

the point is that many people would, rather than lie, be intimidated out of filling out the census at all.

update: rip the university of alaska. the legislature needed 45 votes to override the governor's budget veto; the vote was 37-1 to do so with 22 republicans absent

With 22 lawmakers absent, a joint session of the Alaska Legislature in Juneau fails to override Gov. Dunleavy's budget vetoes https://t.co/HyJHEb3lMR pic.twitter.com/IDrIhetfwD

— Anchorage Daily News (@adndotcom) July 10, 2019

i mean at least have the fucking guts to show up and vote to gut your state's education system

guts for the moment of gutting in short supply

guts for the gutting
dirty little secret
reason for the gathering
consequence

Have tons of family who have gone to/taught at UAF in particular. My cousin is likely completely screwed. And of course the native kids in the villages, and children of immigrants, and working-class hunters/fishers who want to go to college without leaving the state will end up getting a pathetic education as the remaining professors make their escape plans.

really excited about nullification coming back in a big way in the 21st century

holy hell I just realized that "one-thousand twenty-fourth" is why Trump wrote "1000/24th"

― frogbs

I still don’t get that. I assumed he was trying to refer to Warren’s DNA test but doesn’t know how fractions work?

― Karl Malone

to correct the fraction

...or a very nervous and skinny version of Pocahontas (1/1024th), as your President, rather than what you have now, so great looking and smart, a true Stable Genius! Sorry to say that even Social Media would be driven out of business along with, and finally, the Fake News Media!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 11, 2019

still left this part up though

They have lost tremendous credibility since that day in November, 2016, that I came down the escalator with the person who was to become your future First Lady.

something very Wiseauian about that prose

so this uh """"social media summit"""" seems like a good use of White House resources

Trump says his social media following used to just go up, but now it's like "up, down, up, down," and even when it goes up, "it goes very slowly," and "sometimes it comes down substantially," and he doesn't know what's going on.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 11, 2019

Trump: "There's no doubt in my mind that I should have millions and millions - I have millions of people, so many people I wouldn't believe it, but I know that we've been blocked, People come up to me and they say, 'Sir, I can't get you. I can't follow you.'"

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 11, 2019

actually I totally buy that Trump's fans can't figure out how to follow him

maybe he's misunderstanding what people mean when they say "i can't follow you"

hahahaha

so reports are he's going to back off on the citizenship in census but send out some other questionnaire. Why would they think anyone would fill that out rather than just throw it away? who the fuck is going to fill out a form that implicates themselves? what kind of dumb world is this?

lol back down bitch

Barr is such a boot licking chump I hate the sound of his voice

@realDonaldTrump: I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air. Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity....


uh oh he's gonna lose the crypto vote

A grad student out of my department was en route to Fairbanks with her family to start a tenure track job at UAF last week; not sure if it’s even worth unpacking at this point for what is probably now a one year gig.

"Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity" yeah duh dude that's half the fucking point. Thanks for joining the 21st century Granddad

To be fair, at least half his base balances their checkbook by hand

They could use a quick little summary of cryotocurrency

xps i wonder if they write the contracts for those things so that they're actually enforceable/you can sue them for breaking - usually the non-tenure-track ones are so unfavorable to the faculty party that the university can basically drop its end at will

They could use a quick little summary of cryotocurrency

Walt Disney doesn't get a vote

Literally the only vocal trump voter I know is also a crypto person. Looking forward to hearing his reaction

you won't believe it but Trump tweeted negative stuff about Paul Ryan! Called him a failure.

trump otm

Acosta gone, in the least surprising resignation ever. Now he should be disbarred, and possibly also charged with criminal conduct.

Good riddance. https://t.co/vjTQCQsDzV

— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) July 12, 2019

lolol

As soon as MSNBC ran a clip yesterday of "Judge" Andrew Napolitano on FOX announcing that Acosta would be gone by Friday I knew his days were numbered.

Trump on Acosta: "He's a tremendous talent. He's a Hispanic man. He went to Harvard."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2019